Part of Speech PowerPoint Presentation

Part of Speech PowerPoint

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Allison PejiOctober 14

Honors EnglishPeriod 5

Nouns- Definition: A word or word group that is

used to name a person, place, thing, or an idea.

-Examples: Ms. Bohac, Ocotillo Wells, Rope, and book.

Common Nouns vs. Proper Nouns

Common Noun:-Definition: A common noun names any one of a group or

persons, places, things, or ideas and is generally not capitalized.

-Examples: Book, school, marker, computer, phone, and backpack.

Proper Noun: -Definition: A proper noun names a particular person,

place, thing, or idea, and is capitalized.

-Examples: Holt Handbook, West Valley High School, Mac computer, IPhone, and Jansport backpack.

Pronouns- Definition: A word that is used in place of

one or more nouns or pronouns.

-Examples: I, they, your, our, she, we, them, he, us, him, his, their, them, and its.

They are playing all together.

He is playing with the train.

Is she sleeping in her bed?

Personal Pronoun-Definition: A personal pronoun refers to the one speaking is

first person, the one spoken to is second person, or the one being spoken to is third person.

-First Person: I, me, my, mine, we, us, ours, our.-Second person: you, yours, your.-Third person: He, him his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them,

their, theirs.

They are playing jump

rope.

You click the icon to open the

game.

Look, I am good at reading!

Demonstrative and Interrogative Pronouns

-Demonstrative Pronouns:

-Definition: A demonstrative pronoun is used to point our a specific person, place, thing, or idea.

-Examples: This, That, These, Those.

-Interrogative Pronouns: -Definition: An interrogative pronoun introduces a

question.-Examples: Who, whom, which, what, whose.

I think this paper is good enough.

Hmmm, who is in my class?

Adjective-Definition: A word that is used to modify a

noun or a pronoun.

Green Die. Transparent ghost

Old ManHaunted House

Demonstrative Adjectives and Articles

-Demonstrative Adjective:-Definition: A demonstrative adjective is an adjective

modifies a noun or pronoun.-Example:

-Did Jenifer draw this one or that one?-Let’s take these sandwiches and those apples on

our picnic.-Articles:

-Definition: An Indefinite Article is when they refer to any member of a group.

-Examples: -A girl won.-The one day sale is on Saturday.

Verb-Definition: A verb that is used to express action or a state of being.-Example: Texting, jumping, push, doing.

She is exercising.

Mom is helping

jack do his homework.

The boys are loading the

bus.

Helping Verbs-Definition: Helping Verbs help the main verb express action or a state of being.-Examples: can, do, has, might, should, and could.

Please, can you cut the cake now?

Hey! You should put the toys in the box.

Adverb- Definition: A word that modifies a verb, an

adjective, or another word.-Examples: There, up, here, down,

tomorrow, weekly, later, and early.The girl is

going to ride her bike up the street.

It is going to rain tomorrow and weekly from

now on.

Preposition-Definition: A word that shows the

relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word.

-Examples: Aboard, below, from, since, about, beneath, throughout, concerning, past, and without.

They are aboard the train.This

guy is from

history.

Conjunction-Definition: A word that joins word or words

groups.

Decide whether to stay or go. Coordinating Conjunctions:

-Examples: And, but, or nor, for yet so.

-Examples: You are supposed to walk on the street or the sidewalk.

Correlative Conjunctions:

-Examples: Both…and, Not only…but also, Whether…or.

-Example: Both Jim and Roberto were standing outside.

Interjection-Definition: A word that expresses emotion.

-Definition: An interjection has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence.

-Examples: Crap! Wow! Yuck! Yippee! Uh-oh! Well!

WEEE! I’m Swinging!

YUCK! This is nasty!

OWW! This Hurts.